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Chapter 10
Optical Methods for Assessing Fade Margins for Shadowing, Blockage and Clear Line-of-Sight Conditions
10.1
Background
10.2
General Methodology
10.3
Skyline Statistics of Austin and San Antonio, Texas
10.4
Clear, Shadowed and Blocked Propagation States
10.5
Urban Three-State Fade Model (UTSFM)
10.6
Estimation of Urban Fading for the Globalstar Constellation
10.6.1
Cumulative Fade Distributions for Urban Areas In Tokyo, London, and Singapore
10.7
Statistics of Potentially Visible Satellites in Various States
10.8
Satellite Diversity
10.8.1
Single and Joint Fade Distributions
10.8.2
Diversity Gain Versus Probability for Tokyo, London, and Singapore
10.9
Summary Comments and Recommendations
10.10
References
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